Ice-skating – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:33:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Ice-skating – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 A cold spell https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-cold-spell/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=36433 Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet‘Bracingly original . . . As the earth warms threateningly, there could hardly be a more pertinent time for a story like this’ MICHAEL PALIN‘A book of limitless fascinations’ OLIVIA LAING‘Brightly written, nimbly researched and really quite delightful’ LITERARY REVIEW‘[An] extraordinary, complete and utter history of the human experience of the cold stuff’ JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL, COUNTRY LIFE‘A thought-provoking chronicle of humanity . . . Leonard consistently frames ice in surprising and insightful ways, and in doing so lends it a magical quality’ GEOGRAPHICALIce has confounded, delighted and fascinated us since the first sparks of art and culture in Europe and it now underpins the modern world. Without ice, we would not feed ourselves or heal our sick as we do, and our towns and cities, countryside and oceans would look very different. Science would not have progressed along the avenues it did and our galleries and libraries would be missing many masterpieces.A Cold Spell uses this vital link to understanding our past to tell a surprising story of obsession, invention and adventure – how we have lived and dreamed, celebrated and traded, innovated, loved and fought over thousands of years. It brings together a sacrificial Incan mummy, Winston Churchill’s secret plans for unusual aircraft carriers, strange bones that shook Victorian beliefs about the world and a macabre journey into the depths of the human body. It is an original and unique way of looking at something that is literally all around us, whose loss confronts us daily in the news, but whose impact on our lives has never been fully explored.

]]> Britain’s Smartest Kid…On Ice! https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/britains-smartest-kid-on-ice/ Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=22421

These brainy kids are a SMASH hit! Young Marsham needs to survive a TV show competition where they don’t just test trivia knowledge, they test everything…

Marsham can answer almost all the questions on the TV quiz shows he watches with his family, so when his gran comes up with an idea for him to enter favourite show, Britain’s Smartest Kid, in disguise… Marsham goes for it!

But the show has surprises in store – including the fact that some of the challenges will be held on ice!

The competition is fierce, and one of the contestants will stop at nothing to win.

Can Marsham outsmart the others to claim the prize without revealing his true identity – or falling flat on his face?

  • Author Ivor Baddiel is a comedy writer who has worked extensively on TV reality contest shows – so he has written this hilarious backstage mystery novel from experience!
  • Includes lively illustrations by James Lancett throughout.
  • Perfect for fans of shows like X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, The Voice, Child Genius, Dancing on Ice – and readers of Britain’s Biggest Star … Is Dad?
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